Far behind the best and the untouchable Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) this Friday, Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet achieved a final ascent in its standards to Combloux to sign 15th place when the 6th stage of the Dauphiné criterium2'29 from the world champion. A consistent performance which allows the leader of the Groupama-FDJ To go back to the 17th row of the general with 4,44 “delay on the new yellow jersey, two days before the term and while a very mountainous weekend remains to be faced. In the post-race report published in the evening the day before, the Normand climber regretted above all to have been surprised when the peloton started and seriously accelerated in the penultimate climb From Mont-Saxonnex to 45 terminals of the goal, which cost him a lot of energy.
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“It was a bit unexpected, rather reassuring”
“It rolled very quickly and we couldn't go up” explain Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet. “I’ve already shot myself in the foot at that time and I was dropping before the first slopes so much, let it go fast. Finally, I made a nice ascent but I think I left cartridges there. ” Then returned to the valley following a delay of the yellow jersey group, he did what he could in the final and the chain of the two climbs which saw Pogacar and UAE exploding the competition. “”It was not going too bad at the start of the final climb, but I felt that I was more suffering at the end. I was worse than in the previous climb, perhaps also because of the heat. In any case, in view of the sensations of the last days, it was a bit unexpected to be in the first group. It is therefore rather reassuring “he confided before projecting on the 7th stage of this Saturday, the queen stage with three HC passes (Col de la Madeleine and Col de la Croix de Iron before arrival at the top of Valmeinier 1800). “I prefer longer passes than explosive bumps, so it's a great step for me on paper “, he concluded.
